Fans have been waiting with baited breath for weeks for the cause of death, while the Coroner’s office has continued to push back the deadline. We told you on Wednesday that the announcement had already been pushed back to next week.

Now we learn that the coroners are pushing back the reveal “indefinitely.” That doesn’t sound good. Apparently there are so many pieces to the puzzle- multiple doctors, prescriptions, and aliases- that the office can’t process everything fast enough. E! Online shares the disappointing tidbit:

At this point in time, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has “no idea” when the final autopsy report is going to be released, according to Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter.

The coroner’s office was once aiming for Friday to announce the cause of death. Then the middle of next week was deemed more likely.

But now, following a meeting between officials from the coroner’s office, the L.A. District Attorney’s Office and the L.A. Police Department, no one is making any guesses as to when they’ll announce their findings to the public, as authorities continue trying to connect the dots with regard to the King of Pop’s death.

The multiple law-enforcement agencies on the case are on the same page, a source told the L.A. Times Thursday. Instead, it’s the sheer scope of the investigation—and all the characters involved—that’s holding up the proceedings.

From Mercury News:

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says release of Michael Jackson’s autopsy results will be delayed.

Coroner’s officials had said they were going to release the results this week but Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Wednesday the announcement will probably not come until next week.

Winter did not discuss reasons for the delay, saying only that his office needed to “finish up a bunch of stuff.”

Jackson died June 25.

A law enforcement official has said investigators are working under the theory that the powerful anesthetic propofol (PROH’-puh-fahl) caused Jackson’s heart to stop. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

Color us confused- why isn’t the autopsy ready? All of these extras delays makes us suspect that there are details within the report that authorities are afraid to let the public know about. But in reality, the extra waiting just makes us all the more eager to find out what’s going on. Stay tuned!

Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators have begun an inquiry into whether coroner’s employees illegally leaked or sold private information related to the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death.

Investigators spoke to the coroner’s office Friday and will handle the inquiry with the district attorney’s office, according to sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore. The department was asked to conduct the probe by county supervisors, he said.

“It’s an inquiry, not an investigation, and it is very preliminary,” Whitmore said. “We’ve just made a couple of calls. We want to find out if we need to proceed, if this requires an investigation.”

On Wednesday the coroner’s office said Jackson’s death certificate was improperly viewed by at least a half-dozen employees who had no role in investigating the cause of his death.